I am pleased to share “Hearing Things: Voices of the Nonhuman in Chinese Literary and Visual Culture,” the newest issue of the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (11:1), edited by Paula Varsano. The issue is now available in print and online. Browse the table of contents and read the introduction, made freely available, here:
https://read.dukeupress.edu/jclc/issue/11/1
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
Volume 11 Issue 1 April 2024
Special Issue “Hearing Things: Voices of the Nonhuman in Chinese Literary and Visual Culture”
Paula Varsano, Special Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Just Listening: An Introduction
By Paula Varsano
Voices from the Other Side: Exploring Non-human Agents and Their Narrative Function in the Zhuangzi
By Romain Graziani
Simian Episteme, ca. 1200
By Jeehee Hong
Cauldron, Copper, Cash: Medieval Bronze in Motion and Flux
By Jeffrey Moser
The Crying Statue in Early Qing Drama
By Thomas Kelly
Dehumanized Voices and Traumatic Articulations in Late Nineteenth-Century Chinese Classical Tales
By Li Wei
Manuscript and the Human in Modern China
By Chloe Estep
What Noise Does a Psychotic Door Listen To? Information, Intermediality, and Guo Baochang’s Peking Opera Film Dream of the Bridal Chamber
By Ling Hon Lam
Posted by: Yuefan Wang <yuefanw2@illinois.edu>